But they decided that should not be their immediate focus.
Instead, the county Agricultural Advisory Commission voted 10-0 for its solar subcommittee to spend less of its time on the concept of âagrivoltaicsâ â a policy where solar panel farms are used to enhance crop growing â and spend the bulk of its time on other solar-related issues. This includes mapping areas where developers can build such facilities.
âI move that we do everything we can to recommend to the solar subcommittee, that they move forward to completion of a policy that may be presented to (county officials), and we leave the door open and we continue to work on agrivoltaics, as (part) of a comprehensive policy,â Commissioner Karl Wente said. âThis is just a sliver of the pie.â